Water of Dream I : Iceberg Water : " Iluliaq ": Prestige Purity & Travel Sip of Iceberg

Country of Origin: Greenland

Region: Ilulissat Icefjord

Place Name: Ilulissat

Vintage 15.000 years

 

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It began as snow, falling from an ice age sky onto what is now the Greenland ice cap. There it remained preserved, untouched and pristine throughout the millennia.

Located 190 miles north of the Arctic Circle on the west coast of Greenland, the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier has been a protected site on UNESCO's World Heritage list since 2004. This glacier produces more ice than any other glacier on the northern hemisphere, filling the Ilulissat Ice fjord with icebergs that are the source of Iluliaq.

The ice is harvested by Kalaaleq people in the ice fjord for Iluliaq Original Iceberg Water, the same way it’s been harvested for centuries. Kalaaleq people know the three different type of ice: the blue ice, transparent and hard, comes from melted snow that froze again; the Basal ice, tainted with mud and rocks comes from ice that rubbed on the basalt rocks; and the Glacial ice, pure and white, untouched, is the source of Iluliaq water, saved just before it will melt in the ocean and become salt water.

Then the ice is brought to the bottling facility, right in Ilulissat. It’s melted naturally, slowly, because energy is rare and precious in Greenland. To insure the unique quality of the water, elegant glass bottles and stoppers are sterilized by autoclave and individually filled and sealed, on demand, for each customer.

Iluliaq only produce water on demand and don’t stock any bottle to make sure that the freshest water is sent to our customers. Each bottle is dated and the name of the customer is written on the label. The production of Iluliaq Iceberg Water is very limited because it’s totally hand made, it’s not an industrial water.

As a distinct net import country, Greenland imports more goods than it exports, usually via water. Iluliaq avoids unnecessary carbon emissions by taking advantage of free capacity on ships returning to the mainland.


Iluliarsuit Pujortumi Salomine / Moller Lorentzen Photography

Greenland is a remarkable place for water.

It began as snow, falling from an ice age sky onto what is now the Greenland ice cap. There it remained preserved, untouched and pristine throughout the millennia. Located north of the Arctic Circle on the west coast of Greenland, the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier has been a protected site on UNESCO’s (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) World Heritage List since 2004. This glacier produces more ice than any other outside Antarctica, filling the Ilulissat Ice fjord with icebergs that are the source of Iluliaq, the purest water in the world.

A Pure classification (a TDS level of less than 10 ppm) is only achieved naturally by melted ice or snow that has never touched the earth. Measuring a mere 5 ppm, Iluliaq Original Iceberg Water surpasses even this rare level of purity. Iluliaq Original Iceberg Water is the ideal water for distinctive gourmets and fine liquor amateurs.

Iluliaq Analysis:

5 TDS

7.8 ph factor

1 Calcium

3 Chloride

0.05 Fluordine

1 Hydrogeniccarbonate

0.08 Iron

1 Magnesium

0.14 Nitrate

0.1 Potassium

1.8 Sodium

0.5 Sulphates

milligrams per liter (mg/l)

Minerality Super Low

Orientation Hint of Sweet

Hardness Soft

Vintage 15.000 years

Sip of Icerberg

Reportage : Sip of Iceberg, 02 janvier 2012 (SourceFineWaters)

Icebergs dans Disko Bay,

Site du Patrimoine Mondial de l’UNESCO, Ilulissat, Jakobshavn, Groenland, Danemark

M & G Therin-Weise

It is not easy reaching Greenland in November as the only international connection, a flight by Air Greenland leaves only five times a week from Copenhagen. Landing in Kangerlussuaq after five hours, it quickly becomes clear that you have reached one of the outer posts of civilization . 

You immediately notice that weather conditions dictate everything, that the people are very friendly and the food at the small airport is very good,fresh and local. A good sign for things to come.

We came to Greenland to visit Ilulissat, a small town of about 5.000 people 155 miles (250 km) north of the Arctic Circle to meet with Julien Caquineau a French native and the founder of Iluliaq a small company bottling ice berg water from the Ilulissat Ice Fjord.
 

We got the first view of the Ice Fjord from the window of the Hotel Arctic and I don't mean a distant view. The icebergs breaking off the glacier drifted right in front of or widow to the north on a journey that will ultimately lead them to the North Atlantic.

Sermeq Kujalleq glacier is the source of all the ice in the ice fjord and it is per day calving the entire consummation/utilization of water in new York for a whole year. The Ice Fjord which itself is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Hotel Arctic in Ilulissat is the northernmost 4 star hotel in the world and a must visit for any traveler with global ambitions. The contrast between the luxury of the hotel and the remoteness of the area is stunning and so is the world class food as we discovered later.

Sitting at 8am for breakfast in the dining room of the hotel, which must have one of the most amazing views in the world, we noticed that we were north of the Arctic Circle. It was still totally dark outside except some moon light that allowed us to see the contours of the ice bergs floating by. Sunrise was still almost two hours away.

We were scheduled to meet with Julien for a trip to the ice fjord that morning to help harvest some ice for an upcoming special order of his water.

Nothing can prepare you, and you will never forget taking a small 19ft open cabin boat to the Ice Fjord a dynamic landscape of ice bergs the size of many city blocks slowly moving around interrupted only by the unnerving loud bangs of ice breaking off and falling into the cold ocean.

Iluliaq is a very special water. It is water melted from ice that is harvested form icebergs drifting out of the fjord. As we learned it is of paramount importance to select the right ice and we are now looking for old original ice that has never been melted and re-frozen as such a ice would contain impurities. The native ice harvester have a life long experience in the ice fjord and quickly find such ice for us to harvest in stainless steel tanks.

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Back at the clean room of the bottling plant in Ilulissat the ice is slowly and naturally melted and carefully bottled. The result is Iluliaq one of the most exclusive waters in the world and we cannot wait to taste it at a grand dinner at the hotel scheduled for the evening.

For the last decade or more Spain was the center of the epicurean world producing world class chefs and influencing what we eat and how we prepare it. The influence of Spain lingers but if you are a true foody you know by now that the center has shifted to Scandinavian countries in what people call the Nordic Cuisine. It has given us chefs like Claus Meyer of Noma (Copenhagen) and we were lucky that the award winning head chef of the Arctic Hotel Jeppe Ejvind Nielsen has trained in such an environment.

The chef uses almost exclusively local produce and in a place like Ilulissat this means seafood like cod, halibut, salmon and shrimp of outstanding quality as well as meat from musk ox, caribou and lamb. There are also a number of dishes with a strong native influence enjoyed by the many native visitors attending meetings and conferences at the Arctic Hotel.

That evening we had a 7 course tasting menu designed around all the local produce available and we also opened the first bottle of Iluliaq, the water form the icebergs just floating if front of the restaurant.

Iceberg water is rain/snow that fell 10-15.000 years ago and has been frozen ever since.

Iluliaq is soft, neutral and has almost a hint f sweet due to the neutral ph. The water is a perfect pairing for the subtle tastes of the seafood and also goes very well with wine from the expansive wine list at the restaurant.

Water is not just water. It has terroir and it tells a story of its origin. Iluliaq is a great ambassador for Greenland.

Water of Dream II : Iceberg Water : " Iluliaq ": Prestige & Art Design Fairly Painless Advertising

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Iluliaq Iceberg Water Site

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Photographie, Architecture & Ingéniosité : Projet 100% Box Bordelais

Jérémie Buchholtz Photographer by Valerio Mezzanotti for
The New York Times

Jérémie Buchholtz wanted an affordable apartment in Bordeaux (he's a photographer who splits his time between Paris and Bordeaux so his budget was limited), but he wasn't finding anything he liked. Then he stumbled upon a listing for a garage.

There was no house, it was just an abandoned garage for sale. And it looked like one. It had big metal doors that blocked out any sunlight and inside it was being used more as a junk room. So Buchholtz called his friend and architect Matthieu de Marien who specializes in converting stores, offices and other spaces into homes.

A detailed look at "Passage Buhan" by Fabre / deMarien Architects offers John and Matthew the opportunity to discuss alternative ways of designing effective living areas in small quarters.

De Marien took one look at the historic street and recognized it as something special. Passage Buhan is a private passageway where the owners each own half of the road so life extends into the street. And the history here is rich: a couple centuries ago, the laneway housed horses and their riders en route to the then city of Bordeaux and the old stable still sits on the street.

Buchholtz bought the property and De Marien quickly cut into the old garage to create more light and ventilation. The roof is historic and couldn't be touched so he carved a 12 square meter (129 square foot) patio out of the small space, leaving only 41 square meters of living space (441 square feet).

In order to make the space feel larger, De Marien created a "house within a house": one large piece of furniture that includes the bathroom, bedroom, office, closet, a sofa bed and all of the home's storage. With everything contained in this large furniture box, the rest of the home was given more breathing room.

 

Valerio Mezzanotti forThe New York Times

Art Design : CAMERAS Series by Tom Sachs : Hasselblad Leica Nikon

Tom Sachs est un artiste plasticien américain né à New York en 1966.

Il vit et travaille à New York. La dénonciation des travers de la société américaine, la société de consommation, le poids des entreprises, l’impérialisme culturel américain, le progrès technologique, l’identité et le rapport entre survie et destruction sont au cœur de son travail, qui procède le plus souvent par l'assemblage d'objets du quotidien et l'utilisation détournée de marques et de logos immédiatement reconnaissables.

For many years, a small but significant part of Sachs’s production has dealt with cameras. This exhibition brings together twelve works, from 1972 to the present, that not only explore the camera as both sculptural and functional object, but, perhaps more importantly, chart the course that photography and the globalization of precision manufacturing has taken over the past century.

Tom Sachs Link